Get to Work: A June To-Do List
I'm creakily laying to rest my primary-election arguments--you know, the fine points about popular votes, which states matter, disenfranchisement vs. rules, white working-class vs. Appalachia, etc.,...
View ArticleRove and Katrina: New Book
Though this is no shocker, a new book describes Karl Rove's SWIFT, carefully orchestrated political defense of the federal (non)response to Katrina and its aftermath. The book is noted on the New...
View ArticleMcCain: Cigarettes are "a way of killing" Iranians--Updated w/ Video
Reuters just reported that in response to the tenfold rise in U.S. cigarette exports to Iran, McCain said, "Maybe that's a way of killing 'em."The article also reminds us of McCain's "Bomb bomb bomb,...
View ArticleA Request from New Orleans
There have been a number of diaries and comments posted here in the past couple days that do two things that raise the blood pressure of New Orleanians and other Gulf Coast residents as we prepare for...
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